Helen M. Bryant

A New World - Poem by Helen M. Bryant

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Oh planet earth in all your beauty I see the squalor, starvation with fear in the eyes of the children, standing there.

My face was wet with tears I felt the mist aswirl, In blindness I could not see the world, I looked far out at the horizon blue To a world unearthly, impossible, seeming, I heard shouts of power, with greed The tumult awoke me from my dreaming.

Many thousand human souls, They were not alone, But we with our dreaming, will have chance to atone, Can we have lost the power to speak, Of roaring winds, or the crying to cease,

I dreamed a dream of a glorious future A great new world of sweetness with joy For all people on earth, with freedom soil Beneath their feet, with Brotherhood, of love Can we have gained a whole world of planet peace, or one that is coming to birth.